Hello to everyone,
My first message here. And some apologies as tried to find this information myself on the web site and elsewhere, but see no mention of this, so hopefully it’s ok to ask through the forum.
As briefly as I can. I am involved in developing projects looking at lobbying transparency. But from a different angle to what we usually see.
Working on the argument that knowing who is lobbying, or who is meeting whom, is only of limited use. The more pertinent transparency information is what are organisations asking for, and what arguments are they making. Trying to find ways to make it much easier to gather what is being said, in order to then better analyse this, and make it usable for civic society groups. (Happy to discuss this with any interested colleague in more detail)
With that in mind. Have there been any initiatives to make it open and easy, develop API etc, on interest group submissions to governmental consultations, to parliamentary committee enquiries etc.
My first looking around says not. Does anyone know if this being looked at or worked on anywhere?
As I say, hope this ok for this forum.
Many thanks
Scott
Dr Scott Davidson
University of Leicester